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March 2, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: An Atlantic Wire redesign, NPR sets new comment guidelines and inside NYT Magazine

Uh-oh. Are we choking the Internet by using link shorteners like http://nie.mn/eB4vTl »

Narrative storytelling LIVES! And there’s a conference in Boston you should consider next month http://nie.mn/ebxGWB »

AOL News gets in the moment with Real Time, showing how many readers are viewing a story at a given time http://nie.mn/fX63wF »

How TileMap lowers the barriers to making custom visualizations and telling data stories http://nie.mn/eiLTiJ »

"The financial difficulties of American newspapers are not Apple’s fault and they’re not Apple’s to solve" http://nie.mn/hxWFJ8 »

The inner workings of the NYT Mag on the new 6th Floor blog, plus Cats Quote Charlie Sheen http://nie.mn/eMaxy2 »

PSA: GOOD is looking for a "data-obsessed editor" to lead visualizations, maps and other projects http://nie.mn/i89v87 »

Though individual donations for news are small, some journalists say its the future of funding stories http://nie.mn/eRcDKm »

You want free tools for analyzing and displaying Data? Steve Doig has 13 to share http://nie.mn/eou9gX »

Self-promotion, ditching the org chart and more ideas from TBD others could steal http://nie.mn/h4FoxC »

Under new commenting guidelines NPR will assess new users and become a more aggressive bouncer http://nie.mn/dE2Sit »

Arthur Sulzberger doesn’t expect a drop in traffic when the NYT turns the meter on http://nie.mn/e6rXJn »

The Yum-o effect: Demand Media is beefing up its content with help from Rachel Ray http://nie.mn/hmiaXm »

The Atlantic Wire unveils a new look and invites readers to use The Open Wire, a forum and tipline http://nie.mn/gzzXhT »

One secret to how Al Jazeera managed traffic and stayed online? Cloud hosting. http://nie.mn/fwETj9 »

Pros & Cons of Facebook comments: "If you work somewhere that blocks Facebook, you are out of luck" http://nie.mn/fj20De »

More Gilt than Groupon?The NYTimes is entering into the daily deals game with TimesLimited http://nie.mn/i3NHrU »

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